OpenSiteExplorer is not seeing all my inbound links
-
I know I have back links to my site from about 5 or 6 websites and most of them even show in my Google webmaster account but according to OSE I only have 1 inbound link. Is it normal for the OSE stats to be wrong?
I really want to use it but am worried the info isn't going to be accurate.
-
Thumbs up to Anthony - definitely good advice.
In addition, though, I'd think of OSE and Linkscape as a good representative sample. The metrics and side-by-side with other sites/pages are a really good way to compare, but yeah - it can't catch every link on the web. We suspect Google keeps between 100-150 billion pages in their main index and our last index update was 51 billion URLs, so there's obviously a lot of the deep, dark corners missing.
Another thing you might check, though, is Blogscape - http://www.seomoz.org/labs/blogscape - which shows our fresh web crawl and can be used to monitor new links/mentions we've seen. These URLs are starting to go into every Linkscape index soon, so we'll have all that data in the larger index with all the metrics, etc. in the next few updates.
-
Cheers Anthony.
-
OSE has a tough job - they have to crawl every corner of the web, index it, and make the results available to thousands of users a day. It's natural that some links get left out, particularly if they are located very deep on a domain with thousands of links (directories, for example). You may be able to get these links noticed by building links to these links.
A better idea, however, is to just build higher quality links. Focus on obtaining links from relevant, authoritative websites in your niche. It's better to build one great link every day than a thousand mediocre ones.
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Crawl Diagnostics - 350 Critical errors? But I used rel-canonical links
Hello Mozzers, We launched a new website on Monday and had our first MOZ crawl on 01/07/15 which came back with 350+ critical errors. The majority of these were for duplicate content. We had a situation like this for each gym class: GLOBAL YOGA CLASS (canonical link / master record) YOGA CLASS BROMLEY YOGA CLASS OXFORD YOGA CLASS GLASGOW etc All of these local Yoga pages had the canonical link deployed. So why is this regarded as an error by MOZ? Should I have added robots NO INDEX instead? Would think help? Very scared our rankings are gonna get effected 😞 Ben
Moz Pro | | Bendall0 -
Open Site Explorer detects links from a site that redirects to it? How is this possible?
I was checking external links to a site: scte-brasilien.de/ and was wondering why there are so many links pointing from another domain (reisen-nach-brasilien.com/) although it redirects to scte-brasilien.de/? So when checking the redirecting domain OSE knows its redirecting... The URL you've entered redirects to another URL. We're showing results for scte-brasilien.de/ since it is likely to have more accurate link metrics. See data forreisen-nach-brasilien.com/ instead? How is this possible? best regards
Moz Pro | | inlinear
Holger0 -
Need help locating a 404 link
My reports are showing a 404 error for a link to a page in our WP site for which we changed the URL months ago. I can't find where the link is coming from. I used Screaming Frog, but can't find where it might tell me the origin of the link, only that it exists. I am pretty sure it's internal. Can someone please tell me how to find the originating page so I can remove the link without having to comb through every page of the site to look for it? Thanks!
Moz Pro | | gfiedel0 -
Metric "Total Links" can somebody explain this metric to me?
Dear colleagues, Who can explain the following to me? Subdomain metrics - Total links The total links is huge compared to the sum of internal and external links. I do not understand this metric. Can somebody help me to explain this the metrich "total links" I have to present these metrics to my customer and do not want to have "don't know" as an answer 😉 Thanks, Alain Nijholt BMC Internet Marketing
Moz Pro | | bmcinternetmarketing0 -
Not able to find Do follow Link as shown in Seomoz Toolbar
SEO Moz Toolbar showing 1 do follow link in every forum question page Have checked source twice thoroughly - not able to trace that do follow link - to which site is that do follow link going to Some sample links - http://www.mycarhelpline.com/index.php?option=com_easydiscuss&view=post&id=426&Itemid=78 - http://www.mycarhelpline.com/index.php?option=com_easydiscuss&view=post&id=63&Itemid=78 Facebook & Google plus - both are no follow can some one help please so as to know this mysterious do follow link as shown in as letted know by SEOMOZ Toolbar
Moz Pro | | Modi0 -
Is seomoz rogerbot only crawling the subdomains by links or as well by id?
I´m new at seomoz and just set up a first campaign. After the first crawling i got quite a few 404 errors due to deleted (spammy) forum threads. I was sure there are no links to these deleted threads so my question is weather the seomoz rogerbot is only crawling my subdomains by links or as well by ids (the forum thread ids are serially numbered from 1 to x). If the rogerbot crawls as well serially numbered ids do i have to be concerned by the 404 error on behalf of the googlebot as well?
Moz Pro | | sauspiel0 -
How good is Link Assistant Suite? and how good is the SEOmoz API?
Ive gotten many mixed opinions on Link Assistant and its complete suite, I wanted to get some opinions on the matter.. Anyone use these tools? What is the difference between these tools and other tools on the web? Would adding the free SEOmoz API into this software show better results?
Moz Pro | | SEODinosaur0 -
Link Building
Hi is there any free ways of link building where you do not use exchange link sites. Also are there any free tools and paid tools that you can use to increase your links to your site. I have a couple of new sites and i am trying to bring more traffic to them through link building and other methods and trying to find the best way of doing this. I have heard of people talk about free tools and paid tools but not sure which ones they are. any help would be great
Moz Pro | | ClaireH-1848860